Copyright by: George D. Gann
Cultivated plant at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Family: Malvaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Native Range:
Endemic to the Bahama Archipelago (accepted as endemic by Freid et al. 2014).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 938) for rocky coastal thickets in the southern Archipelago (regions 5, 3, 1).
Comments:
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Synonyms:
Malache bahamensis.
